"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society"

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick."

"A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve"

"[The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any."

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value."

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord"

"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe"

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part."

"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

"Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place."

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above."

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."

"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."

"Time makes more converts than reason."

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection"

"It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance"

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy."

"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."

"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately."

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."

"My mind is my own church."

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly."